From Marc Duldig, President of the Australian Institute of Physics Welcome to my bulletin covering physics news and events for September 2012 and beyond. In a busy September we have gravitational waves in Adelaide, ultra-cold atom optics in Victoria, a…

Welcome back – this is my first 2012 bulletin for journalists interested in science.

• Australians are risking skin cancer to avoid nanoparticles
• No word on the $2 billion Square Kilometre Array yet
• Let us know if you’re heading to Vancouver for the AAAS conference
• Tasmanian-born nuclear physicist Allan Clark is home from the Large Hadron Collider
• TB – the threat to Australia and our region –  World TB Day on 24 March
• It’s not too late to register for the 2012 Australian Science Communicators National Conference in Sydney – 27-29 February
• Saving maths

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What we see in the night sky is only five per cent of the Universe. So what’s the other 95 per cent of the Universe made of – a young physicist has the answers across Tasmania this week. One of Australia’s leading young physicists will reveal the dark secrets of the Universe in Tasmania this […]

What we see in the night sky is only five per cent of the Universe. So what’s the other 95 per cent of the Universe made of – a young physicist has the answers across Tasmania this week.

One of Australia’s leading young physicists will reveal the dark secrets of the Universe in Tasmania this week with a series of school and public talks in Burnie, Launceston, Devonport and Hobart.

Dr Tamara Davis is a L’Oréal Australia Fellow, the 2011 national Women in Physics lecturer, an astrophysicist at the Universities of Queensland and Copenhagen, and good talent. [continue reading…]